[BioRuby] Buildbot target platforms

[Peter Cock]

Retitling thread

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl> wrote:
>> Very cool. Would it be possible to show the builder names including
>> the distro? So instead of the too generic
>>
>>  Linux 32 - Ruby 1.9
>>
>> show
>>
>>  Linux CentOS 4.6 32bits - Ruby 1.9
>>
>> so the output is immediately self descriptive?
>>
>> Pj.
>
> That short name is configurable, but it would be used for multiple
> buildslaves supporting that target.
>
> The question is do you want to lump together all your 32 bit
> Linux machines testing Ruby 1.9 under one group (as it is
> now, although currently with just one buildslave for this
> grouping), or have a more fine grained listing?
>
> i.e. More build targets which will show up as more rows or
> columns here:
>
> http://testing.open-bio.org/bioruby/grid
> http://testing.open-bio.org/bioruby/tgrid
> http://testing.open-bio.org/bioruby/waterfall
>
> This is what we were trying to ask earlier about the build
> targets, and initially we agreed to go for Ruby 1.8 and 1.9
> on a range of operating systems - Windows 32, Win 64,
> Linux 32, Linux 64, Mac OS Snow Leopard (64 bit), etc
> Hopefully this is starting to become clearer now.

These are the Biopython targets, 23 of them right now:
testing.open-bio.org/biopython/grid
testing.open-bio.org/biopython/tgrid

For us since we test several variants of Python, having
the OS broken down into anything finer would be too much.

Note that I am beginning to think that on Ruby the revision
number seems to be much more important than in Python.
i.e. Maybe we should have separate testing for Ruby 1.9.1,
1.9.2, 1.9.3 etc rather than just bundling them together under
Ruby 1.9?

Peter